"Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up. A September report from NewsGuard, which monitors online misinformation, found that “non-response rates fell from 31 percent in August 2024 to 0 percent in August 2025.”" https://popular.info/p/what-happens-when-you-trust-ai-for
#AIEd #AI #Misinformation
Kathy Reid
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Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.
"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/
Writer Ketan Joshi, in his article for Crickey asks where the demand for #disinformation and #misinformation comes from? He reasons that in accordance with the laws of supply and demand, if there wasn't such a demand, peddlers of lies and confabulations would have given up by now. But they haven't. If anything there's more otf them these days. So many that it's getting hard to avoid the slop.
"A good chunk of the “demand for disinformation” comes from people who’ve been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism, and crave aesthetically plausible justifications for the ball of anger in their chest."
Read more:
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/15/misinformation-disinformation-climate-change/
Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:
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A Manila marketing agency waged a cyber campaign paid for by China to weaken support for Philippine government policy and to sow discord over the security alliance with the United States. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/asia-pacific/china-infowar-us-philippines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #philippines #misinformation #us #china #taiwan #socialmedia
Employment-related scams rose by over 1,000% from May through July, when new graduates typically search for jobs, and nearly 1 in 3 Americans report have received job offer scams via text message, according to McAfee. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/10/06/economy/scams-us-job-hunters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #jobs #cybersecurity #misinformation #fraud
Angela Antunovic
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PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
PR firms are spreading climate misinformation on behalf of fossil fuel companies. Could Australia stop them? https://phys.org/news/2025-10-pr-firms-climate-misinformation-behalf.html
#Australia #environment #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #lobby #misinformation
Scammers are among the top political ad spenders on Meta's platforms, using deepfake videos of American politicians — including President Donald Trump — to promote fake government benefits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/02/world/politics/us-deepfake-political-ads-meta/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #meta #misinformation #deepfakes #socialmedia #advertising #us
"Disinformation" has become such a contentious label in the United States that some researchers who study the harmful effects of falsehoods are abandoning it altogether. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/world/politics/what-researchers-call-disinformation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #misinformation #media #fakenews #internet
Bellingcat
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How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?
Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?
Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat
How are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?
Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?
Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat
The previously sensible advice to never use ChatGPT for search needs to be rethought - GPT-5 in thinking mode is shockingly good at running searches now https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
@simon It’s great until it can’t discern misinformation/disinformation from reality.
https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/
Full report: https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/August-2025-One-Year-Progress-Report-3.pdf #llm #misinformation
https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/
Full report: https://www.newsguardtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/August-2025-One-Year-Progress-Report-3.pdf #llm #misinformation
Chart from the NewsGuard full report showing the percentage of false information in responses from different AI models in August 2024 and August 2025. Most models show an increase in false information over time, with Inflection and Perplexity having the highest rates in 2025. Claude and Gemini have the lowest rates.
Quote from the NewsGuard article: “As chatbots adopted real-time web searches, they moved away from declining to answer questions. Their non-response rates fell from 31 percent in August 2024 to 0 percent in August 2025. But at 35 percent, their likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled. Instead of citing data cutoffs or refusing to weigh in on sensitive topics, the LLMs now pull from a polluted online information ecosystem — sometimes deliberately seeded by vast networks of malign actors, including Russian disinformation operations — and treat unreliable sources as credible.”
Angela Antunovic
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College students are bombarded by #misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409 #media #education
College students are bombarded by #misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened https://theconversation.com/college-students-are-bombarded-by-misinformation-so-this-professor-taught-them-fact-checking-101-heres-what-happened-262409 #media #education
Ulrike Hahn
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"RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused." Good.
https://www.inquirer.com/health/christine-laine-annals-internal-medicine-rfk-20250820.html?id=Na39cruXtXDM6
#RFKjr #vaccines #vaccinate #disinformation #misinformation#ScienceMatters
"RFK Jr. demanded that a scientific journal retract a vaccine study. Its Philly-based editor refused." Good.
https://www.inquirer.com/health/christine-laine-annals-internal-medicine-rfk-20250820.html?id=Na39cruXtXDM6
#RFKjr #vaccines #vaccinate #disinformation #misinformation#ScienceMatters
A social media clip of a Palestinian mother reuniting with her children in Canada has been used by some pro-Israeli critics to deny claims of starvation in Gaza. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/world/politics/palestinian-mother-gaza-starvation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #israel #gaza #israelhamaswar #palestinians #hunger #famine #misinformation
Michael Foster
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"“If Brazil makes strides in its regulation, it could inspire other countries…” said Francisco Cruz, a law professor
#Brazil, led by the Supreme Court and Justice Moraes, has taken some of the most aggressive steps of any country in tackling online #misinformation, saying it undermines the country’s #democracy.
If tech companies succeed in influencing Brazilian regulation, the #tariffs could deliver a major, if quieter, victory for the American leader and his allies."